There are times when I wish I was writing a real blog. I would love to talk about things like amorous astronauts and Steve Jobs dumping DRM and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces sending surges of soldiers to their eminent demise, but I’m stuck in debate purgatory talking about Scarsdale’s Pffft numbers and whether Noah is the crankiest ex-debater in the northeast and ranking rhapsodic on the NY States tournament. Out of sheer despair I almost went back to read the comments on the Mangus post, but having originally only skimmed his rant—which seemed to be an impassioned plea to call each other nasty names in public, but somewhere other than on VBD, a portmanteau subject that does not interest me, but which did stir the old Alzheimer’s chord to suggest we [re]vitalize WTF’s forums given that no one else has any forums worth a damn, including the moribund-but-doesn’t-know-it-yet Legion of Doom—I remembered as I was about to drill down that I didn’t care so instead I looked for photographs of the Kick Heard Round the World from Lexington, but even though there was a shot of KR and MA at Newark less than a week ago looking as if they had just returned from opposite sides of the table at a Bill O’Reilly taping, plus a shot of Noah scaring Joe Vaughan with yet another reason Smilin’ J should be canonized, there was nothing from Lexington. Consarn it! I kicked Cruz, I threw fruit, I watched La Coin eat cheese, and what do I get for my troubles? Nada, nothing and bupkes. Meanwhile I’ll bet a few half-decent astronaut diaper jokes—not to mention this ritual I’m developing for non-Jewish children that I’m calling the goy mitzvah—would get me Digged and even manage to raise my service provider costs. I’m in the wrong business.
Another lovely item I found on good old WTF is O'C's linked Star Wars video done entirely with hands. You do not have to see it to believe it; trust me on that. In our interview O'C told me his SW collection is so large that it is insured by Lloyd's of London for 10 million pounds sterling, or something like that, but let us not forget there's a few Trekker items in there as well, including William Shatner's copy of the US Constitution and Leonard Nimoy's adenoids, and they're probably jacking up the price a little bit. Anyhow, my question was how many other Star Wars mashup videos did he watch that were, uh, less, uh, successful than this one? And for this WTF is paying him $5K a post? Shocking. Shocking. (I'd do it for $4K.)
Do me a favor, meanwhile, and absorb those photos of the new Dubai museums that are on the drawing boards. They were in the paper over the weekend. I know I've been thinking about them, and I've started writing some material that may be useful to architectural neophytes. Dualing paradigms, anyone?
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